Iowa Border States Move Toward Beer Sales
Des Moines reports体 boundary state border towns prepare for beer sales as 32 percent beer bill crawls through the House committee. Des Moines notes changes to tax and dining car permit fees while towns in Dubuque Davenport and Fort Madison gear up for Friday sales and promotions.
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Mount Vernon hosts 1040 bums in basement over year
The Mount Vernon register reports 1040 homeless individuals found shelter in the basement of the city Fabere over the past year since April 5. Nights of shelter were low, with 184 guests in December and 181 in March. fourte en guests on March 29. Guests could cook using their own wood.
Funeral plans unsettled for Mrs Elen G Wuer at 93
Mrs Elen G Wuer 93 died Tuesday at her daughter Mrs H A Larson’s home in Vinton. Born December 10 1839 she married Henry H Wiley in 1865 who died in 1921. Surviving children include Eugene H and Laon H of Whitewater Wisconsin Mrs J H Byford of Columbus Ohio Mrs G H Moellring of Williston North Carolina and Mrs Larson of Vinton.
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H. A. Larson
Wiley
Henry H Wiley
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Laon H
Whitewater
Wis
J H. Byford
Muscatine County Flood Damages Cedar River Levees
The Cedar River flood damaged Muscatine County with levee breaks between the Simpson and Salsbury Bridges and west Muscatine road washouts. Crews stacked sandbags to protect roads to Moscow and Coneso No Two as cottages along the Cedar were toppled. A man and his daughter were rescued from a flood home. The crest neared Wednesday night and risks spanned to Louisa County with breaks at Columbus Junction and sandbar work on the Iowa River.
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Wapello Roads
Socialist Club at Iowa Reopens Fight on Army Drill
The University of Iowa Socialist Club circulated petitions urging the state legislature to abolish compulsory military training. Roland A. White of Marengo led the drive, aiming for about 1,000 signers including pacifist sympathizers and faculty. The petition demands abolition of compulsory drill and opposes war unless the United States is invaded at home.
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Waterloo Seeks R F C Fund For Dikes Recovery
Waterloo seeks Reconstruc tion Finance Corporation aid to rebuild dikes along the Cedar river after flood damage. Mayor Morgan says permanent protection for the business district is needed and has asked Congressman Wilford to help arrange a loan. The Iowa Public Service dam section weighs several tons and broke loose. About 160 families are under Red Cross care. Temporary work for the unemployed is rebuilding roads and bridges as several bridges were washed away.
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Funeral planned for 3 year old Bobby Rankin in fatal fire
Webster City AP reports Bobby Rankin aged 3 died in a blaze that destroyed his parents home near Williams II. The body was found after a morning to evening search. the mother and father were in the barn when fire started. A daughter warned them and Rankin saved another son and daughter. Investigators think he crawled under a bed to escape smoke.
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Poultry thief gets five year term in Anamosa reform school
Maquoreta Louis Liston, 27, was sentenced by Judge W R Maines in Jackson county district court to five years at the Anamosa reformatory after pleading guilty to larceny of domestic poultry. He confessed to taking chickens from Charles Reichling farm near the area in January and was brought to court on a county attorney true information. He is the fourth local poultry thief sentenced recently.
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Three Die in North Iowa Truck Crash
Plymouth county authorities investigated a Wednesday night collision eight miles north of LeMars in which three were killed and one hurt. The dead are Peter Davids and Del Willard of Ochevedan and Jennie Stubbe 20 of Adrian Minnesota. Hazel McNabb 18 Worthington Minnesota was hospitalized with bruises after saying she and Miss Stubbe had biked hitchhiking. The truck carrying four struck the rear of a parked truck on the highway.
Belle Plaine's 95th Birthday Recounts Indian Fight Tale
Belle Plaine's oldest resident Mrs. Mary E. Brand recalls a violent Indian encounter from her youth in Vermillion Ohio. She describes defending her mother with a bowie knife and tomahawk then driving the Indian from their home.
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Defense Fund Formed For Drake Estate Promoter Hartzell
A defense fund for Oscar Hartzell promoter of the Drake estate has been formed with contributions from about 4000 people. Trustee I T Jones says funds will assist Hartzell in defending government charges that he used the mails to defraud in the Drake estate scheme. Thousands in the Midwest invested in the plan, though authorities deem the estate mythical. The total amount raised remains undisclosed.
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Daggett Rites Held for Ella Daggett 79
Funeral services for Mrs Ella Daggett 79 were held at the Garrison Methodist church. Born Ella Woodworth October 15 1853 in Shellsburg she married John Daggett October 16 1881 at Webster City. He died a year ago. They spent most of their married life on a farm here. Surviving are sons Guy Daggett of Garrison and Frank Stevens of Sidney Nebraska a daughter Mrs Harold Eaton of Rivertown Wyoming and a sister Marguerite Woodsworth of Webster.
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George Chown
Muscatine
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Wheeling
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Lake Township
Muscatine County
Mary Meyers
Ida van Zandt
Howard Green
Roy Littrell
Mae Schomberg
Letts
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Minnie
Mary Foster
Garrison
Ella Daggett
Garrison Methodist Episcopal Church
Wyo
Frank Stevens
Sidney, Neb
Marguerite Woodsworth
Webster
Iowa City Student Council Disbands After Dispute
The University of Iowa undergraduate Student Government dissolves after a vote by the student council. Milo Mitralsky of Cedar Rapids leads a motion to suspend the constitution while a new government plan is devised. A four member committee is named to draft the plan with Nelle Traer Davenport Paul Ahlers Lamont Rochelle IL and Julius Fink Ringsted IA on the panel.
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University of Iowa
Milo Mitralsky
Cedar Rapids
Nelle Traer
Davenport
Paul Ahlers
Lamoite
John Turkington
Rochelle, Il
Julius Fink
Ringsted
School board rehires staff and reopens Center School
At a local board meeting all teachers were rehired for the coming year under Superintendent Charles C. Smith and Principal Helen White. The district also voted to reopen District No. 5 Center School with Hilda Lippert as teacher.
Repair Work Underway After Cedar Flood Destroys Rail Line
A crew began repairing about a half mile of Rock Island track three miles northwest of Vinton after Cedar River erosion uncovered the roadbed. Ten carloads of cinders were used to reballast. line expected back by Thursday night and traffic by Saturday. County Engineer M A Hall started a county highway survey while H T McNamara of Urbana escaped injury after his car submerged on highway 101 north of Vinton.
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Cedar River
Rock Island Railroad
Waterloo
M. A. Hall
H. T. McNamara
Urbana
McNamara
Grundy Center Board Cuts Teachers Pay for 1933-34
The Grundy Center school board reduced all teachers salaries by about 30 percent effective with the 1933-34 school year. The superintendent's pay drops from 2600 dollars to 1950 dollars.
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